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Bobcat Goldthwait or Bob Saget? :hoj:

"Exotic dancing" fitness studios can be found it seems pretty much everywhere these days, and classes are even being offered at regular gyms. It's often presented as a fun and empowering way to get fit and get comfortable with your body. ...

Congrats!:hoj:

For Zuul. For WhatExit? For Otakuloki. For OliveLoaf. For purpl3

Okay, the oddly stocked 3:00 PM office "break cart" just stopped outside your cube or office. Which free item from the cart do you choose?

You've just been sucked back in time--to England. Before being deposited permanently in the era, you are given a choice of five possible careers. Which do you choose?

'Freedom has a scent - like the top of a newborn baby's head...' It's in this spirit (and at Oliveloaf's prodding) that this thread has arisen in all its glorious newness.

Actual service member answers to the DADT survey posted by Autostraddle: “You just can’t show them around. Can’t take them out to a bar.” Why not? :iiam: “Am I supposed to celebrate gayness—do they get to wear a rainbow flag on their...

So I will be officially Old on Wednesday. I'm generally not very happy about milestone birthdays and I don't think I've ever enjoyed a single one, but I'd like to try to enjoy this one. Since I'm going to be thousands of miles away from my...

My kid just ran from room-to-room turning on my old German radios. She tuned each to the local station playing Christmas music. Now she's baking with my wife. So I am now bathed in the smell of vanilla and the vacuum-tube-powered glow of a...

Christmas?

Ah, the newness. Like the smell of a new car. Like the smell of freshly fallen snow. Like the smell of cinammon rolls fresh out of the oven. The newest of the new. What's new with you?

I'll start: It's not letting me embed youtube things, so I'll just link. \o/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRP9TXUaUOk

The CNN story on the Mississippi basketball coach accused of whipping his students made me think about corporal punishment in general - not from a debate standpoint, but more from a personal experience standpoint. Were you hit, spanked, whipped,...

Well? :hoj:

So today my husband and I picked up the bunk bed we had ordered for our 3-year-old son's bedroom, and spent the rest of the day assembling it. Our son was super cute...got out his little tool set and used his toy electric drill to imitate his dad...

Just what the title says: What stereotypes do you find yourself stuck with, no matter how many times you remind yourself that individuals are not defined by the groups they are part of? For me the biggest one is the stereotype of the Jewish...

Often when I go on a posting frenzy I'll be told I need to wait fifteen seconds between posts. So I sit and I count and then I post some more. My favorite way to post is to start with a new posts search, go back to the oldest "new" posts, open a...

W00t! :dumbo::dumbo::dumbo::dumbo::dumbo:

What's your reaction to seeing a resturant, or fast food place, measuring out their portions while making your order? (Inspired by a discussion I saw where people were genuinely pissed off that a sub shop would weight the meat portion of a...

You gotta move to one of them, permanently. Where do you go? Germany, or France? :hoj:

How? Advice. Please note that I am not in anyway qualified to issue advice on anything but purchasing a car, writing--sorta, and maybe parenting. So, to be sure that my advice is completely bunk, let's stay completely away from those...

Jayden

My family had a standard Christmas-morning ritual which, despite much grumbling from my husband, I have continued with my own kids. Basically, it's this: Santa leaves the stockings by the bedroom door. Kids are free to get up at whatever unholy...

::jumping around celebrating the day for my people:: Black Friday! C'mon Black people celebrate. Huh? Wha...?

Henry Ford, circa 1909 "Lazy masses. Get a job. $850 is as low as I can go for a...CAR! This is a deal people! Losing my mind."

Go to Chuck E. Cheese's

Belgrad or Minsk?

Our tree is getting old now. My wife was thinking about an umbrella tree. Anyone know if they work and look nice? Here is this year's decorations with an extra special decoration on the skirt.

:smug::madsci::drunk::sci::hist::roll::):)

Just as the title says - a poll to see how long people expect to pass out after ODing on the tryptophan in their holiday dinner.

Check out this "bizarre" image found by Google Earth: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/google-street-view-sighting_n_786774.html#s188191 Now look at the picture again. Why must this guy be nude? Why must he be up to no good? Let's...

Why was Cinderella so bad at soccer? Because she was always running away from the ball.

Your thoughts? :hoj:

Okay, there's one that is really distinct for me. I graduated from bagger to cashier at a grocery store when I hit 18. Basically, I worked there for a year and change before I started college, didn't have a job my freshman year, and got myself hired...

No, I didn't write it. Buy her clothes that are too small If you buy her clothes that are obviously too small for her, not only will she finally have to admit that she’s putting on weight, but she can easily return them for her correct size....

Something that will undoubtably ruin productivity across Britain today. www.flushtracker.com Chances of getting work done: small :lol: Feel free to slowly back out of thread and run screaming.

Okay, the goal here is to take something awful (see below), and ever so gradually improve upon it. If I say "stick in the eye", you might say "soft stick in the eye"...and so on. Eventually, we should get to "giving Kim Delaney a neck rub"...

First tracks: Saturday, 13 November 2010, 8:30 p.m. Instead of burning a pair of skis as an offering to the ski gods, this morning I burned the floor and walls of my trailer. The sacrifice worked. It snowed enough that by this evening, I was...

Okay, here's the deal. For a cool $5,000, all you have to do is house one of the following animals in your dwelling for one week. You may not take the animal out of doors. You also may not put the animal in a cage. You may restrict the...

A pepper grinder :hoj:

Sometimes I have it. You?

Why am I never around when stuff like this happens? wp_RHnQ-jgU Got any more? Or anything similar?

Well?

Wacka Woo

Most famously a judge on Food Network's "The Next Iron Chef."

Seems like the day after Halloween is the official start of the Christmas shopping season...that's when I started seeing ads changing over to a Christmas theme. I also noticed that a bunch of Christmas-themed music channels were added to my...

Sometimes I like to think about which prehistoric animals I could kill without the aid of a gun. I think that this is valuable preparation for the day when the mutants roam the planet and everything horrible has been cloned. To that end, could...

Hamid Karzai or Vladamir Putin?

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